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Nazi Featured in NYT Puff Piece Loses Job; Still Hasn’t Been Punched Yet

November 26 edition of NYT, lovingly profiling a face-punchable Nazi. As dutifully reported in this week’s One Day at a Time, columnist Ann Romano wrote: โ€ฆthe New York Times published a lengthy profile [last weekend] on an unknown American Nazi (who they call a โ€œfar right extremistโ€ but fuck thatโ€”heโ€™s a fucking Nazi), describing him […]

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How Oregon’s Klan of Yesteryear is Suspiciously Similar to Today’s Political Climate

CLARA JOYCE Dear Sir,โ€ begins the membership form, โ€œWe have been requested by one of your personal friends to get in touch with you, and inform you of this organization.โ€ A list of questions follows. โ€œWhat is your age? What is your occupation? Where were you born?โ€ And: โ€œWere your parents born in the United […]

Posted inBooks

After Allegation, a Local Podcaster Is Refusing to Interview Mad Men‘s Matthew Weiner at Powell’s

Matthew Weiner signs books in February. Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner is slated to appear at the Cedar Crossing Powell’s next Thursday. And of course he was just accused of sexual harassment. Now, the local podcaster who was slated to interview Weiner says he’s decided against showing up. David Naimon, […]

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The Dam’s Breaking. Make Sure It Stays Broken By Listening to Women

franckreporter / Getty This week, we’re in brave new world where sexual harassment and assault allegations are suddenly met with business consequences, from Weinstein to Spacey to Louis C.K. It’s amazing. And yet unpack it the tiniest bit, and you realize that the real consequences begin when primarily white, super famous women with huge social […]

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More on Roy Moore’s Sexual Assault Allegations

The Advocate: In a 2002 Alabama Supreme Court opinion Moore called homosexuality โ€œabominable, detestable, unmentionable, and too disgusting and well known to require other definition or further details or description.โ€ That comment came in a custody case, in which the court awarded custody to a father who had slapped his children and bugged their phones […]

Posted inCannabis

Blumenauer’s PAC to Remove Anti-Cannabis Lawmakers

rgbpace / Getty Images Oregon produces some of the finest cannabis in North America, and as evidenced by an article yesterday in Salem’s Statesman Journal, we also produce the finest elected representatives to stand up for our cannabis industry. TheJournal‘s Jonathan Bach reported on Rep. Earl Blumenauer‘s announcement that he has formed the Cannabis Fund, […]

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